In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire.
- China
The Scramble for China
Robert Bickers' extraordinary new book tells this epic story both from the European point of view and the Chinese, reimagining these encounters between two equally arrogant and scornful cultures.
- History
Out of China
Out of China uses a brilliant array of unusual, strange and vivid sources to recreate a now fantastically remote world: the corrupt, lurid modernity of pre-War Shanghai, the often tiny patches of 'extra-territorial' land controlled by ...
- Biography & Autobiography
Empire Made Me
Robert Bickers mines the letters of Richard Tinkler along with archival files to create a fascinating and much-needed narrative of everyday life in the colonial world and an unvarnished portrait of the colonial experience that will ...
- Political Science
African Countries and the Global Scramble for China
In African Countries and the Global Scramble for China, Mbaidjol engages the reader, from African perspectives and African People’s interests, in a theme that is currently fuelling international relations debates.
- Political Science
Scramble for the Skies
With a focus on China, the United States, and India, this book examines the economic ambitions of the second space race.
- China
Wealth and Power
Two leading experts on China evaluate its rise throughout the past one hundred fifty years, sharing portraits of key intellectual and political leaders to explain how China transformed from a country under foreign assault to a world giant.
- History
The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China
Many scholars brush off the Boxer Rebellion as an ill-conceived and easily defeated revolt, but in The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China, the military historian David J. Silbey shows just how close the Boxers came to beating back ...
- Business & Economics
China Bound
China Bound charts the story of the firm, its family owners and staff, its operations, its successes and its disasters, as it endured wars, uprisings and revolutions, the rise and fall of empires - China's, Britain's, Japan's – and the ...
- Business & Economics
The New Scramble for Africa
This book explores the nature of resource and market competition in Africa and the strategies adopted by the different actors involved - be they world powers or small companies.
